August 14, 2020
Which Hickenlooper will Colorado get?
What does John Hickenlooper have to say about VP pick Kamala Harris’ enthusiasm to , which would kill more than 200,000 jobs in Colorado?
His position hasn’t been consistent over the years…
2020 Campaign Hickenlooper:
- “My goal (as Governor) was to make fracking obsolete.” (April 15, 2020, )
- At a townhall event, Hickenlooper said he’d of the green new deal
- In November, Hickenlooper said he would “” than the green new deal.
Pre-2020 Hickenlooper:
- and talked about how harmless it is at a congressional hearing.
- In a 2016 “Colorado Matters” interview, Hickenlooper said that fracking “in real time, is dramatically cleaning up our air and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions in a way that we could not possibly do using solar or wind, without some more time for those technologies to lower their cost.”
- In an interview with Boulder Magazine in 2011, Hickenlooper advocated for natural gas as a cleaner, cheaper, and safer alternative to imported oil & gas.
- At a 2012 , Hickenlooper said that the anxiety people have with fracking “isn’t directly connected to facts.”
- Hickenlooper worked to to keep an anti-drilling initiative off of the ballot
- Hickenlooper supported against communities that passed fracking bans
Energy development is one of Colorado’s primary economic drivers, and voters deserve to know which Hickenlooper they would get in November.